Office 365 Groups are very popular at Western. We have hundreds of groups that have been created by faculty, staff, and students. Groups are great, because they provide us with a common location for sharing conversations, files, notes, tasks, a calendar, and more. The only problem is how do you know when there is new content in an Office 365 group that you should see? What if you can't remember where a conversation, file, or note lives?
This is where Microsoft Teams comes in. It's not a replacement for Office 365 Groups, but Teams and Office 365 Groups work together. It's your hub for Office 365, and it offers a new way to communicate with members of your team: Instant message channels that are organized by team and topic (like the popular communication tool Slack).
The best part is that you have one activity feed to follow, and one search bar to find content that has been previously shared within Teams.
Office 365 Group owners can create a Team linked to an existing Office 365 Group, and anyone can create a new Team.